I would also suggest a mounted camera to record you whilst driving and commentating. Perhaps it's a budget thing just starting out, but a shaky hand-held perspective (with a little too much headroom at that) in the cabin looks amateurish. Again just a small point. You definitely posses very good inherent skills to present and do this sort of thing, so keep going and I wish you the very best of luck with it.
Good review man, I am actually thinking about buying one right now and this video is helping a lot. If you fix some things such as the audio mix and the lighting I recon you will go a long way
I agree with your other points, however apart from perhaps his very last shot I can't honestly fault his lighting. I think it was fine throughout. He does not have a Top Gear budget.
One last thing sorry: if you are going to do a review of an Audi with AWD capability, SHOWCASE its AWD capability!!! Wait for the snows!! It will ASTOUND!! Keep the windscreen mounted camera mounted and show yourself passing all of the other vehicles (including some SUVs) which are stuck on the road while you effortlessly glide by serenely listening to Bach! Honestly! It baffles me now how many reviewers have chosen to review the car and haven't shown its STELLAR feature which is the QUATTRO! They are always the last one standing and almost never get stuck. Even if the car were sorely lacking in other respects (which it isn't), the Audi Quattro is so damn good that many would still purchase it just for this feature alone.
Your usage of the words "do" and "does" is overt and gratuitous. They should only be used to make a more emphatic point. Using them all of the time before your verb just renders void that emphasis you desire. This then irritates the listener who feels that you are insisting that every point which you are making is intended as emphasis. This cannot be the case as then nothing is more important or less important. Examples: Incorrect: "The Audi does have a nice interior. It does have heated seats and it does have an adjustable steering column. Whilst it does not have a sunroof, it does have aircon so you do keep you cool in the heat." Correct: "The Audi has a nice interior. It has heated seats, and an adjustable steering column. Whilst it does not have a sunroof, it *does* have aircon to keep you cool in the heat." Can you see the difference? The former is laborious and taxing to the listener. When it *does* come to using "does" you have lost all emphasis through the former repetition where it wasn't needed. Please have a think about jt as you are otherwise a fine presenter with thoughtful interesting things to say; and your camera angles, and your direction and sound are all very good.
I agree. Also tinting the rear windows of an avant makes them look like they are in fact a van but trying to cover it up. It makes them look like a yucky old commercial.
I apologize for the background music being slightly louder than normal.
Indeed. It's too loud to hear what you're saying at times. When in doubt, leave it out.
I would also suggest a mounted camera to record you whilst driving and commentating. Perhaps it's a budget thing just starting out, but a shaky hand-held perspective (with a little too much headroom at that) in the cabin looks amateurish.
Again just a small point. You definitely posses very good inherent skills to present and do this sort of thing, so keep going and I wish you the very best of luck with it.
Good review man, I am actually thinking about buying one right now and this video is helping a lot. If you fix some things such as the audio mix and the lighting I recon you will go a long way
I agree with your other points, however apart from perhaps his very last shot I can't honestly fault his lighting. I think it was fine throughout.
He does not have a Top Gear budget.
It would help if year and sub-model were posted.
Allroads are much better than avants. People who come from avants and go to allroads never go back. Allroads offer better all-round practicability.
Mix is drowning out your voice to a high degree - check those levels Brother
Hi. Get rid of the music. We can't hear what you are saying.
One last thing sorry: if you are going to do a review of an Audi with AWD capability, SHOWCASE its AWD capability!!! Wait for the snows!! It will ASTOUND!!
Keep the windscreen mounted camera mounted and show yourself passing all of the other vehicles (including some SUVs) which are stuck on the road while you effortlessly glide by serenely listening to Bach!
Honestly! It baffles me now how many reviewers have chosen to review the car and haven't shown its STELLAR feature which is the QUATTRO!
They are always the last one standing and almost never get stuck.
Even if the car were sorely lacking in other respects (which it isn't), the Audi Quattro is so damn good that many would still purchase it just for this feature alone.
its 99% the same car how is there even a comparison.
Your usage of the words "do" and "does" is overt and gratuitous. They should only be used to make a more emphatic point. Using them all of the time before your verb just renders void that emphasis you desire. This then irritates the listener who feels that you are insisting that every point which you are making is intended as emphasis. This cannot be the case as then nothing is more important or less important.
Examples:
Incorrect:
"The Audi does have a nice interior. It does have heated seats and it does have an adjustable steering column. Whilst it does not have a sunroof, it does have aircon so you do keep you cool in the heat."
Correct:
"The Audi has a nice interior. It has heated seats, and an adjustable steering column. Whilst it does not have a sunroof, it *does* have aircon to keep you cool in the heat."
Can you see the difference? The former is laborious and taxing to the listener. When it *does* come to using "does" you have lost all emphasis through the former repetition where it wasn't needed.
Please have a think about jt as you are otherwise a fine presenter with thoughtful interesting things to say; and your camera angles, and your direction and sound are all very good.
This car looks best without tinted windows , big mistake to have them tinted.
I agree. Also tinting the rear windows of an avant makes them look like they are in fact a van but trying to cover it up. It makes them look like a yucky old commercial.